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a flDessage to tbe lonely 

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Copyrighted 1909 

By Salem D. Towne 

Boston, Mass. 



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Cj I N overwhelming sense of aloneness A bense 
Jj\ is often borne in upon the human °J 

<s \* soul, bringing a consciousness of Aloneness 
being alone and apart from every other being 
in the universe of God. There is a sense 
in which this is true, but it is also a great and 
blessed truth that one is never alone. This 
little message goes forth to lonely hearts 
everywhere with the hope and the prayer 
that this sense of loneliness may be lifted 
from them and a great joy come with the 
consciousness that one is never alone. 

Thou shalt not want for company 

Nor pitch thy tent alone ; 
The indwelling God will go with thee 

And show thee of his own. 

— Frederick L. Hosmer 



'I AM NOT ALONE' 



Alone in There is no place in the world where 

a QreoX one can feel more lonely than in a great 

City city where there is not a familiar face and 

where the multitude of strange faces go 

surging by. Here one feels all alone. 

It was at such a time that there came 
to me these words of Jesus: "I am not 
alone, " and they glowed as with a divine 
glory, bringing a message of deep joy and 
peace to my heart. 

I thought of the lonely hearts every- 
where and a great desire came to me to 
bear this message of joy and peace to all 
such. 

As a result this little book goes forth to 
proclaim the glad message — "/ am not 
alone. " 



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rE mother bends over her child while Not A lone 
a flood of love pours through her &l Loving 
soul, and the child looks up lovingly and being 
into the mother's face. The two feel that Loved 
never mother and child loved quite as much 
as they, or were quite as dear to one an- 
other. 

Two lovers full of the great passion of 
love feel that never two loved each other 
quite as much as they, or were quite as 
happy as they, but in this each can say : 
'7 am not alone. " 

Love is as old as God, and wherever 
human hearts have caught the divine flame 
they have loved and been loved. The Story 
is not new. I am not alone in loving and 
in being loved. 



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^Tm* STk MPTATION comes t0 me *** a 
, . ^1 constancy and a persistency that 

talion 4^p- ._. L1 . . 

seems irresisTibie or again it comes 

like a whirlwind, sweeping everything before 

it. I feel that my temptations are peculiar, 

that they are a little stronger, a little more 

fierce and a little more difficult to meet than 

those that have come to other hearts. 

Then I hear the voice of Scripture 
saying: "There hath no temptation taken you 
but such as is common to man." And I be- 
gin to realize that ail about me is a multitude 
fighting the fierce battles of temptation, all 
needing the same divine help. The whole 
world has to meet temptation. Again the 
voice of Scripture comes to me that my 
Saviour was "in all points tempted like as 
we are, and yet without sin," and He knows 
how to succor those who are tempted. 

/ am not alone in temptation 



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VERY heart knoweth its own bit- 
terness.'* It does seem to me 
the burden under which I 
stagger is a little heavier than anyone else 
ever carried, the pain at my heart a little 
more intense than that of any other aching 
heart, and the cup of sorrow that I have to 
drink is a little more bitter than anyone 
else ever had to drain. Yes ! I feel alone :n 
my sorrow. No one knows just how to 
understand or sympathize with me in this. 
Then again the message comes to me that 
Jesus was "a man of sorrows and acquaint- 
ed with grief," that he said : "My Soul is 
exceeding sorrowful, even unto death" and 
that he, having known the fulness of sorrow, 
comes to me with sympathy and love. 
He opens my eyes and lets me look out, and 
I see all about me others with heavy bur- 
dens to carry, with thorny paths to walk 
in, with aching hearts and burdened spirits. 
As I see these suffering ones, my own 



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"I AM NOT ALONE" 



The Qreat heart goes out in great sympathy for them. 

Fellowship While the knowledge of their sorrow does 
of not make my own less, it does enlarge my 

Suffering sympathies and gives me a new passion of 
love for my brothers and sisters — God's suf- 
fering children — and I realize that the great 
fellowship in this world is the fellowship of 
suffering. 

Then I remember that it is written, the 
Captain of our Salvation was made "perfect 
through suffering," and I learn that there is 
no other way that his children can be tried, 
proven and made fit for the kingdom except 
through suffering, and I know that / am not 
alone in my suffering. 



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J MAY walk in the wilderness, but / In the 
am not alone ; I may be out on the Midst °f a 
wide ocean, but / am not alone; I 
may be a stranger in a strange land, but / 
am not alone; I may be unknown in a great 
city, but / am not alone, for I am in the 
midst of a great spiritual world. 

If the prophet could stand by my side, 
as he did by the side of the young man of 
old, and say: "O, Lord, open his eyes," 
I would see the chariots of the Lord and 
the Lord's own host of ministering spirits 
all around me. 

Jesus said that he had but to speak, and 
twelve legions of angels would come to His 
aid. He who loves His children will not 
leave them alone, but will send, and does 
send these minislering angels to care for 
them. "For He shall give his angels charge 
over thee to keep thee in all thy ways." 

Do you see that little boy going down 
the street ? He is not alone : a guardian 



"I AM NOT ALONE" 



The angel is by his side. Do you see that young 

Guardian man starting out into the great world to 
Angel make a way for himself? He is not alone: 
a guardian angel is by his side, and, if he 
but listens to the voice, he will be kept in 
all his ways. Do you see that young girl 
on a journey without friends ? She is not 
alone, but a guardian angel is by her side, 
and she is safe if she but listens to the voice. 
Do you see that man or that woman in the 
thick of litVs battles and in the midst of its 
cares and burdens ? They are not alone. 
A guardian angel walks by their side. "Are 
they not all ministering spirits ?" 

So, beloved hearts, rejoice with a great 
joy and peace, for all about you, unseen, 
but yet so near that no word or ad: misses 
their attention, are God's minislering spirits. 

/ am not alone. 



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ORE beautiful and more precious 

than any other thought to me, Presence 
comes an absolute certainty of °* v°« 
the presence of God. I go to the secret 
place of prayer, and as I talk to my "Fa- 
ther Who seeth in secret," there steals into 
my soul a wonderful consciousness of the 
presence of my Heavenly Father, nearer 
than my own life, and I know that / am 
not alone, for the presence of God is round 
about me, and His love hovers over me. 

Or when I am out in the tempest of 
life. My boat is tossed by the waves, the 
billows go over me, the darkness is round 
about me and there comes out of the dark- 
ness a voice saying : "It is I, be not afraid." 
Then I know that He who stilled the tem- 
pest on the Sea of Galilee is my Saviour, 
and is right at hand to help me in the 
darkest and most trying hour. His voice 
speaks as clearly to my soul as it spake to 
the disciples of old, and / am not alone. 



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am with Then I remember that He said : "Lo, I 

You am w * tn y° u a l wa y» even un *o the end of 

the world," and my faith grasps this blessed 
truth that God's children are never alone. 
I look up with a steadfast look and an un- 
faltering faith, while my soul is filled with 
peace and joy, and I say in the words of 
Jesus, "/ am not alone. " 



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"Fear not, I am with thee ; O be not dismayed ! 

For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid ; 
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to 
stand, 

Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 

"When through the deep waters I call thee to go, 
The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow ; 

For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, 
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 

"The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose 
I will not, I will not desert to his foes ; 

That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, 
I'll never, no never, no never forsake. 



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The Eternal God is thy Refuge, and 
underneath are the Everlasting Arms. 



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